Packet losses of multicast over 802.11N heterogeneous wireless local area network

Author

Vella, Jean-Marie ; Zammit, Saviour

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Univ. of Malta, Msida, Malta

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 April 2012

Firstpage

300

Lastpage

303

Abstract

In this paper, a testbed is presented which is used to gather UDP packet traces during multicast transmission, enabling the analysis of spatial correlation between nodes. This paper also studies the error burst length of each node and the average burst of successfully received packets of each node, presenting also a simplified Gilbert model. It achieves this while proposing a simple method that uses multiple transmit antennas and space diversity to reduce the aggregate PER experienced during a multicast transmission. As far as we know, this is the first of its kind to be performed for an 802.11n network.

Keywords

multicast communication; packet radio networks; transmitting antennas; wireless LAN; 802.11N heterogeneous wireless local area network; UDP packet traces; multicast transmission; packet losses; simplified Gilbert model; space diversity; transmit antennas; Aggregates; IEEE 802.11n Standard; Receivers; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication; 802.11n; MIMO; space diversity; spatial correlation; spatial expansion; wireless multicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), 2012 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

ISSN

2157-8672

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2191-5

Type

conf

Filename

6208133